Paratha

I like to call myself paratha expert. Call it experimentation or sheer laziness of cooking roti and sabji separately, I like to mix vegetables in flour and make different types of parathas. And here I want to clear of the myth that parathas are very difficult to make.
Ok the stuffed ones are difficult to learn but once you get the trick, there is no looking back. We can make two types of parathas: stuffed or mixed (as I like to call it)
Till the time I come up with good written explanation for how to make stuffed paratha, lets make the simple parathas. Also the quantity of ingredients given is not strict. You can change as you instinct permits :-)

Lets make the mixed type paratha

Ingredients: Any of the vegetables like cauliflower, cabbage, cucumber, raddish, potato, spinach, methi… or any leafy vergetable for that matter. I have never tried mixing two or more vegetables but you can try that also. That should make interesting taste.
Salt, 1 teaspoon turmeric powder, 2 teaspoon red chilly powder or paste of green chillies and ginger, coriander leaves, lime juice, 1 teaspoon cumin seeds, 1 tea spoon ajwain, 2 cups wheat flour, 1 tea spoon garam masala and optional gram flour

Reciepe: If you are taking a green vegetable, Chop it finely. If you are using vegetables like cauliflower, cabbage, grate it or chop finely in mixi/food processes. Make sure there are no big lumps of the vegetable left behind. Add salt, turmeric powder, red chilly powder to this. Grind cumin seeds and ajwain and the powder. If you like taste of garam masala, add a teaspoon of masala. If you like fresh taste, put 2 spoons of green chilly+ginger paste instead of red chilly powder and garam masala. (It really tastes good, try sometime ;-)). If coriander is available, finely chop it and add two spoonfuls. Ad dash of lemon juice if you like it. Mix this mixture properly.
If you have taken vegetable like cucumber, onion, raddish or potato, which get watery, keep the mixture aside for 10 minuts. After 10 minutes, squeeze it hard and separate the water in a bowl/cup. We will use it to knead the flour.
Now add wheat flour to this mixture. You can 3-4 big spoonfuls of gram flour if you like. This gives very nice taste which I like a lot. Do not add too much of flour. It should be enough to mix out vegetable mixture. So if you have one cup of vegetables, One and half to two cups of flour should be enough. Add water to it as required, such that you get soft enough dough to make roties.
And make parathas. Put good amount of oil on them while roasting. Serve with yogurt, pickle or ketchup.

This is so simple no.

PS: Try aloo paraths(kacche allo ke parathe) this way. They taste yum !